Tongue-Tie & Palate Evaluation Procedures
Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and palatal distortions can have a profound impact on cranial development, airway function, latching, speech, posture, and neurological integration—especially in infants and young children.
In this targeted online course, you’ll learn how to accurately evaluate and address tongue-tie and palate imbalances using safe, gentle, and effective cranial techniques. You’ll gain insight into how oral and cranial restrictions affect the entire body—and how to support optimal outcomes through chiropractic care.
This training empowers chiropractors to play a critical role in identifying dysfunctions early, guiding parents through care options, and offering structural corrections that often reduce the need for more invasive procedures.
What You’ll Learn
- Detailed evaluation protocols for tongue, lip, and buccal ties
- Visual and manual assessment strategies for high, narrow, or distorted palates
- Step-by-step cranial techniques to support palate expansion and normalize oral function
- How to recognize compensatory patterns affecting the jaw, cranium, and spine
- Guidance for collaboration with other birth and oral health professionals
Resources Provided
- Video class modules
- Evaluation & technique presentations
- Practical demonstrations
- Calls to action (CTAs)
- Complete PDF workbooks
- Full transcriptions of video classes
- Email access to Dr. Rosen & Dr. Watson
Why Take This Course?
- Early identification and correction of tongue-tie and palate issues can prevent long-term problems with feeding, breathing, speech, and neurological development
- Chiropractors are uniquely positioned to identify structural dysfunctions that are often overlooked in traditional screenings
- Hands-on protocols you can implement immediately to support both infants and children in your practice
Who Is This Course For?
Chiropractors who want to:
- Elevate their pediatric care with advanced cranial and oral assessment tools
- Provide non-invasive support to families navigating tethered oral tissue diagnoses
- Integrate functional cranial corrections into a neurologically-based chiropractic practice
Tongue-tie and palate distortions don’t just affect the mouth—they influence the entire cranial and spinal system. This course gives you the tools to assess and address these patterns confidently, improving outcomes for your youngest patients and their families.
Course Contents
12 Modules | 12 CTAs
Class 1 – Cranial Anatomy and Landmarks
Class 2 – Cranial Bone Motion
Class 3 – The Dural Meningeal System and CSF
Class 4 – Anatomy and Movement of the Palate
Class 5 – Evaluation of the Palate
Class 6 – Dural Meningeal Evaluation of the Palate
Class 7 – Palate Distortions and Cranial Bone Relationships
Class 8 – Corrections for Palate Distortions
Class 9 – Sphenobasilar Mechanics and Evaluation
Class 10 – Palate Corrections and Fruit Jar Techniques
Class 11 – Tongue-Tie
Class 12 – Palate Contacts for Intra-Oral Corrections and the Sphenomaxillary Suture
Meet the Instructors
As early as first quarter in chiropractic school they were attracted to each other’s commitment to chiropractic and the pursuit of excellence. Their combined 80 years of personal and clinical and teaching experience, in delivering the chiropractic adjustment is unparalleled in the chiropractic profession. Their international outreach through teaching, writing and lecturing has been a driving force in their personal and professional careers since their first seminar taught together as students, in 1979.
Their years of experience have taught them what works and what does not work to create a successful practice and lifestyle. The more competent and comprehensive your expertise you will find that more patients will seek your services and your practice will grow exponentially.
Feedback From Our Students
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Lindsey Pfeiffer, DC
Three takeaways would be that this course is 1. easily digestible with the amount of information that is given at a time 2. The information allows you to have a deeper understanding of TMJ versus any other seminar I’ve taken. 3. The videos at the end of the course with the demonstrations allow you to have a hands-on experience at home.
This program has personally helped me with my own children who have been dealing with airway and bruxism issues. Being able to apply the knowledge at home has been wonderful.
I am not currently practicing but have been practicing the techniques with my own children.
I would recommend this course for anyone wanting to upgrade their TMJ adjusting skills. If they treat these types of issues, they should be fixing the root cause. Simply adjusting the TMJ without addressing the cranium is missing a huge piece of the puzzle.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course.
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Carlos Moraes, DC
It was a deeply enriching experience. The course provided a comprehensive and practical understanding of how cranial biomechanics influence temporomandibular joint function and overall postural balance. One of the strongest aspects of the program was the clinical reasoning behind each cranial and TMJ correction. Dr. Rosen emphasized how subtle restrictions in the sphenoid, temporal, and occipital bones can directly impact mandibular motion and occlusion patterns. This made me see TMJ dysfunction not as an isolated problem but as part of a dynamic cranio-cervical system. I also appreciated the program’s interdisciplinary perspective, integrating insights from dentistry work and chiropractic. It encouraged a collaborative mindset, showing how chiropractors can complement dental and craniofacial therapies in managing TMJ dysfunction.
This program has impacted some patients I was seeing that regular chiropractic work was not solving the TMJ patterns. I corrected a Z opening mouth last month using the cranial corrections first
Yes, I would recommend this program. All chiropractors that want to see complex patients should take this program.
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Dr. John Erickson
My three takeaways from this course:
Slow release of modules accommodates busy schedules. Doctor Sharing allows for communication with the Doctors to discuss real-life situations Dr. Marty knows his stuff – he is a credit to the profession.This course has helped demystify the TMJ not only in adults, but in the peds patient. People need options for care of the TMJ and there hasn’t been anything out there on the alternative side quite like this course.
Early in the course, while working with patients and trying to apply what was learned, I noticed an improvement of jaw motion, decreased pain, and decreased clicking. Later I realized that I hadn’t even done the adjustment correctly and still had improvement. Since I have fine-tuned my adjustment.
I would recommend this course if you want a slow release of info at a pace that wouldn’t be overwhelming to a doctor with a busy practice and life.
Thanks for the obvious time and effort put into the course.
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